...conjecture we may from the perfunctory declaration of the shrewd boggier in the last lines : If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly." That is one way of looking at the play. Of course the question of what " ominous conjectures " we are...

...conjecture we may from the perfunctory declaration of the shrewd boggier in the last lines : If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly." That is one way of looking at the play. Of course the question of what " ominous conjectures " we are...

...dismissed to happiness.' This is just. Bertram is atrocious. With Helena before him he says, ' If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.' Did he require a deposition on oath in presence of a magistrate ? He deserved a scourging in the market...

...tight place, he is apparently transformed in the twinkling of an eye into a model husband. If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly, ever, ever, dearly. But are things going to end well for Bertram any more than for Helena? Many other features of the play...

...Helena (Il.iii.ni ff.) and again when he accepts her if she proves to have been his partner : "If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, / I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly" ( V-iii-jop-io) . But the passage also may be taken to imply that Bertram's love and, with it, his...

...a plot, forced to a plain concession. But he recovers enough for a notorious last couplet: If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly. (11. 309-10) I said 'recovers' advisedly: the flattened affirmation restores something of the false...

...responsibility, merely what Wheeler calls Bertram's 'dismal and conditional final couplet',19 If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly (5.2.309-10) in which he seems to be trying to reassert some feeble remnants of dignity and choice,...

...happily ever after. Bertram ends with a couple of lines which don't tell us much: "If she, my lord, can make me know this clearly, / I'll love her dearly ever, ever dearly." Their surface meaning is clear enough, but in the context of the whole scene, they also contain shame,...

...jingling statement to the King accents the ritualistic character of the marital reconciliation: "If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, / I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly" (5.3.313-14). Diana has spoken in riddles of the rings and proposals of marriage. Helena has performed...

...ring and hearing Helena read from his letter the terms he himself has imposed, he exclaims: "If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, /I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly" (V.iii.315-16). Thus at last is the wedding complete and the true marriage under way. Bertram has been...